Boot and shoe hanger.



Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

WITNESSES I 6%(M4 EHARLEE EEUELIGK ATTOR/VE Y8 which the following is a specification.

-. the same being in'the nature of a spring Y a an ent plane from the bee bars 2,2' xjIn use and oppration of the hanger are as hereinafter of the hanger, it being indicated as attached other modification. Fig. 5 is a cross section 'vided with the screwoint 4. The rear ends. oLbars 1", 3, are ent'or curved at a CHARLES B. ROBUCK, OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA.

BOOT AND snon HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.- l Application filed May 27, 1909. Serial No. 498,726.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be itknown that I, CnARLEs'BRoBUoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Bernardino, in the county of San Bernardino, State of California, have invented an Im-- provement in Boot and Shoe Hangers, of

My invention is a device adapted for use in suspendlng or supportlng boots, shoes, and, other footwear havlng a sole or heel crease,

clamp adapted to embrace the heel portion of the article and thus'hold it by-friction in any position in such manner as not to obstruct the view of the same appreciably.

The device is designed for domestic use in rooms or closets as well as for more extensive use in boot and shoe stores, show windows, etc. It may be attached to walls, ceilings, floors, counters and shelves, and readily.at-' tached or detached.

The details of construction, attachment,

descri ed and shown-in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form to a vertical wall and clamping and suspending a shoe vertically. -Fig. 2 is a plan or front view of the hanger. Fig. 3 is a side view of a modification, a shoe being shown supported vertically with the toe upward. Fig. 4 is a side view, partly insection, of anof the hanger shown in Fig. 4.

I will first describe that form of the invention shown in Figs. 1' and 2-. I The same has op osite side portions, or open jaws, A, A, a back or cross portion, thewhole being constructed integ-ra y of stout spring Wire doubled upon itself, and one of whose ends is pointed and threaded to adapt it to. be screwed into a wall, floor, ceiling, shelf, table, or other suitable support. The jaws A, A, diverge slightly from each other, to adapt them to receive a boot or shoe with g eater facility. The jaws are formed of two embers or bars 1 and.3,- and the former (1) 011'- stitute the jaws propen These;lie slig tly above the outer bars 3, and are connected by aback or cross-bar 2. The other bars 3 are similarly connected by a bar 2., andpmright anglesfithat the 'aws A lie in a difierof the device in this form, the point 4, is screwed into a support, say a vertical wall, as represented in 1g. 1, and the spring jaws A, A, may project downward or upward. The heel of a boot or shoe being then forced up or down between the jaws A, A, it is c amped by the inner bars 1, 1, which enter the groove between the heel and counter, as shown, the outer bars 3, 3, in such case not coming in contact with the heel, which lies between them. By the bends of'the rear portions of the jaws they are stiffened and the back bar, 2, also carried below the heel so that the boot or. shoe is held clear of the support into which the point 4 "screwed.

It is obvious the bootor shoe may be in stantly'detached by'pulling it downward or upward, as the case may be.

In the modified formof hanger shown in Fig. 3, the clamping jaws A, A, have no screw point,-but are attached by a friction screwclamp 5 to a pastor rod 6 that may be set vertical, it being provided with a screw point 7. The clainp'fi is slidableon the rod 6, and 7 thus a boot or shoe held vertically or other-' wise in the clamp A, A, ma .be conveniently adjusted higher or lower.

PatentedAug. 1o, 1909.

In the second modification, shown in Figs.

4 and 5, a longsleeve. 8 is slidable on a pointed rod 6 and may be clampedthereon by a screw 9. The boot or shoe clamp may be attached to and secured upon this sleeve 8 in the same manner as on the rod 6 in Fig 3.

It is ap arentthat a series of clamps may 'be applie to a single rod 6, so'as to support or suspend a corresponding number of boots or shoes at different heights, or in diflerent.

positions, and-that they may, therefore, be

exhibited in stores or show windows to great advantage.

In practice, the portion of the wire'of which the hanger aws A are formed is slightly flattene as enable the inner sections 1, 1, of the spring jaws to lie and fit in the side grooves of aboot or shoe heel to better advantage.

What I claim is:

1. A boot and, shoe hanger constructed with open s ring jaws, each formed of two nearly para el bars one-of which lies within to increase rigidity as well the other'and both connected-at the back by l a cross-bar," and a device for supportlng the A hanger. roper, as shown and described. 2. .A hanger' for the purpose specified, con- "structed ofa wire doubled upon itself and thus forming opposite open jaws whose members 1, 3, are bent backward and' conclampproper, a rear cross bar connecting the nected by rear cross bars, as shown and deouter members, and means for sup orting scribed. the hanger, substantiall as describeri 3. A hanger having opposite open jaws for CHARL S B. ROBUCK. 5 clamping a boot or shoe, the same being each Witnesses: formed of wire doubled upon itself, the inner W. L. VESTAL,

} bars or memberscf such jaws serving as the W. H. MILLER. 

